Digital Social Hour
Crowdfunding Secrets: Raise Millions in Days | Renji Bijoy DSH #1209
28 Feb 2025
Discover the insider secrets to raising millions through crowdfunding in record time! 🚀 In this episode of the Digital Social Hour, host Sean Kelly sits down with Renji Bijoy, the genius behind one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns ever. From raising $2 million in just 2 days to building a revolutionary AR/VR product, Renji shares the strategies, challenges, and mindset needed to turn bold ideas into reality. 🧠💡 Learn why timing, substance, and leveraging your audience are game-changers in the crowdfunding world. Plus, hear firsthand how Renji’s team is shaping the future of computing with their groundbreaking visor technology and disrupting the tech giants. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or just curious about the next big thing in tech, this conversation is packed with valuable insights you don’t want to miss! 🌟 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:14 - How Renji Raised $20M 04:52 - Next Generation Computing 06:34 - Future of Venture Capital 09:16 - Global Power Shift 11:28 - Power of Social Media 13:53 - Managing Raised Capital 16:36 - Immersed: $8M with 8 Employees 18:56 - Immersed: $1M from Meta 21:06 - Immersed: $1M from Twitch 23:14 - Immersed: $1B from Facebook 27:45 - Starting a Company Again 29:14 - The Visor in the Wild 30:32 - Elon Musk and Tesla 31:25 - Legacy of Steve Jobs 34:50 - Competing Orthogonally 37:00 - Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin 37:57 - How Immersed Started 41:34 - Importance of Networking 43:53 - AI and Job Security 45:10 - Humanoid Robots 49:15 - AI Creating New Jobs 52:27 - Differentiate Your Podcast 54:20 - Human Relationships Matter 55:26 - Post-Trump Authenticity 57:20 - Stop Making Pennies APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Renji Bijoy https://www.instagram.com/renji.bijoy LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #indiecomics #creativecrowdfunding #comiccrowdfunding #crowdfundingforartists #crowdfundingtactics
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quick buck every month but then we wouldn't have the opportunity to build a multi-billion dollar business and so i don't want to have twitch's story no offense great exit i'd rather have the call it the facebook story of the first call it two two or three years of facebook there was no monetization on the facebook platform they just built the network of friends of friends of friends of friends and as soon as they are like all right now we got to figure out monetization
All right, guys, we got Renji here today from Austin. And man, you might have sold me on Austin. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, I'm glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I did not know that many important people were out there.
Yeah, it's a good spot. I think it's kind of the new Silicon Valley. Yeah. How long you been out there for? Six years. Okay. It's a really good spot. Yeah, I think because it has the chill vibe of like the East Coast, I think more like kind of Atlanta, you can raise a family, chill out there, but also has like a tech focus, business focus.
You guys like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, the founders of like Airbnb, Palantir. A lot of people you don't realize are out there. It's a really good networking spot, especially because it's early. I think when you're in a saturated city like New York or San Francisco, it's just hard if you haven't been there for decades. That's true.
Because by then people are kind of shielded with their connection and they have their circles established. Exactly. Yeah. And it's like, hey, sorry, seat's taken. Yeah. So I know you've raised a ton of money over 20 million, right? Was moving to Austin kind of integral to that?
I would say that Austin wasn't integral for that necessarily because we did actually predominantly crowdfunding online. Right. Right. So if we wanted to raise more venture capital, probably would have been better to move out to San Francisco or something. Right. But I think for us, because we have sort of this army of retail investors, our users, our followers that really love our product.
it's really empowered us to get the word out there. It's really sort of a viral mechanism to get more users, more investors. I don't think we would have been able to, especially because we're focused on hardware. We're kind of building this advisor type product. Because of that, it's actually easier to crowdfund and not have to go through all these hoops that venture capitalists want you to,
But instead, why don't you just go to the customers who really love the product and get them to fund it? And so very quickly raised like $2 million in two days, $8 million in two weeks.
And I was like, man, I've done six-month VC roadshows before, venture capital roadshows, and still come up with nothing as opposed to you just give your audience, your customers an opportunity to invest in something they believe in. man, it really just ramps up out of nowhere. And so I'm super thankful for pretty much everyone who's really backed us to date. I love it.
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